existential
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“The Devil Wears Prada 2” addresses the existential worries of journalists and everyone working across multimedia with bracing honesty.
From Salon • May 1, 2026
"With Artificial Intelligence, though, it feels more extreme," she added, noting that Moreno-Gama was radicalized through the "'AI existential risk' rhetoric" rather than its employment or environmental impacts.
From Barron's • Apr. 29, 2026
“I was having a baby — I didn’t know what existential meant,” she remarks.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 28, 2026
The tension between those two ideas—China as existential competitor and China as manageable counterpart—runs through the entire approach.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026
As they watched the documentary about the 32,000-year-old cave paintings in France’s Chauvet cave, interwoven with Herzog’s heavily accented existential musings, Travis couldn’t help but wonder what his father would say if he were there.
From "The Serpent King" by Jeff Zentner
Vocabulary lists containing existential
"Letter from Birmingham Jail" by Martin Luther King, Jr. (1963)
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